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Angels just signed Zack Cozart - he was a free agent. 3 years, $38M.

Zack had a great year in 2017. His glove was always outstanding at SS, but in 2017 he posted career-best totals in BA (.297), OBP (.385), SLG (.548)

He's a career .250 hitter that justified his existence because of his defensive abilities, but the Angels are betting hard that last season's offensive numbers aren't an aberration. Since they already have Andrelton Simmons at short, the word is they intend to stick Cozart at 3rd base.

You can justify your existence as a sub-par hitter if you play great defense at shortstop. But at 3rd? Not really. Cozart will need to continue his offensive output from 2017 to make this a good signing for LA.
 
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Hauler said:
Angels just signed Zack Cozart - he was a free agent. 3 years, $38M.

Zack had a great year in 2017. His glove was always outstanding at SS, but in 2017 he posted career-best totals in BA (.297), OBP (.385), SLG (.548)

He's a career .250 hitter that justified his existence because of his defensive abilities, but the Angels are betting hard that last season's offensive numbers aren't an aberration. Since they already have Andrelton Simmons at short, the word is they intend to stick Cozart at 3rd base.

You can justify your existence as a sub-par hitter if you play great defense at shortstop. But at 3rd? Not really. Cozart will need to continue his offensive output from 2017 to make this a good signing for LA.
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It must be rough knowing Votto will have to retire soon and your team is trading getting rid of every player that even remotely has a shot at replacing him.
 
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It must be rough knowing Votto will have to retire soon and your team is trading getting rid of every player that even remotely has a shot at replacing him.
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Cozart is in his 30s and he's never hit 25 HRs in a season.

I knew he was moving on. Not a surprise - or even a disappointment.
 
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Hauler said:
Cozart is in his 30s and he's never hit 25 HRs in a season.

I knew he was moving on. Not a surprise - or even a disappointment.
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your wife just tweeted that she wishes her husband would stop procrastinating on cleaning the gutters. I'm paraphrasing & I did edit out some profanity
 
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Twins get Fernando Rodney. 1yr 4.5 Million. I didn't follow him closely last year. I saw him a TON shooting arrows after getting final outs for the D-backs. He's 40 and had an ERA north of 4 last year. Typical of the Twins, lets grab the old dudes.

Ron Darling thinks Darvish should sign, and would be a great fit in Minnesota. I SMH thinking 'not in a million years'.
 
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Its being reported that the Royals offered Hosmer 7 years and 147 mil. So much for that small market bullshit they try to tell their fans.
 
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Truck Party said:
small markets can afford that, but they should've let him walk on that price
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I agree. KC is very delusional about the players they have. Why would you keep someone for that price when he hasnt helped you win for the last few years. They didnt learn their lesson on Alex Gordon apparently.
 
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I agree. KC is very delusional about the players they have. Why would you keep someone for that price when he hasnt helped you win for the last few years. They didnt learn their lesson on Alex Gordon apparently.
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when I was deep into the saber community I made some friends with some scouts, they couldn't shut up about how beautiful his swing was. the guy has no power at a position where you need the guy to be special at something. Hosmer is a good major leaguer, not a guy I'd lock in on a long term deal. the market was lukewarm on hi too, at best

if you ever start playing daily fantasy, he's a good guy for 50/50's. he'll rarely put up a bagel, but he's not some kind of superstar
 
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Truck Party said:
when I was deep into the saber community I made some friends with some scouts, they couldn't shut up about how beautiful his swing was. the guy has no power at a position where you need the guy to be special at something. Hosmer is a good major leaguer, not a guy I'd lock in on a long term deal. the market was lukewarm on hi too, at best

if you ever start playing daily fantasy, he's a good guy for 50/50's. he'll rarely put up a bagel, but he's not some kind of superstar
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Exactly how I feel about him. Gold gloves at 1st base are extremely overrated. Your 1st basemam should at least have the potential for 40 hrs and 120 rbis.
 
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what's the proper response when you attempt to troll a cards fan & the trollee rates you're post a winner? help me out here, Hauler @Hauler
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Pujols has 2 gold gloves but at no point was that brought up when he signed his monster contract. Not sure how you are trolling but gold gloves at 1st are a joke. I think McGwire has a couple as well.
 
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what's the proper response when you attempt to troll a cards fan & the trollee rates you're post a winner? help me out here, Hauler @Hauler
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It has to be a current player.
Try a few jabs at Yadier and see what happens.

Or you can talk about the Gold Gloves that Ozzie ripped from Larkin on reputation alone. It shouldn't, but offense usually matters for GG awards unless you have a cool name and can do backflips.
 
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It has to be a current player.
Try a few jabs at Yadier and see what happens.

Or you can talk about the Gold Gloves that Ozzie ripped from Larkin on reputation alone. It shouldn't, but offense usually matters for GG awards unless you have a cool name and can do backflips.
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Jealous much? Ozzie never won a GG because of offense and like Cincy, Larkin will always be the 2nd best in the NL over that time period.
 
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Hauler said:
It has to be a current player.
Try a few jabs at Yadier and see what happens.

Or you can talk about the Gold Gloves that Ozzie ripped from Larkin on reputation alone. It shouldn't, but offense usually matters for GG awards unless you have a cool name and can do backflips.
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Ozzie is the most overrated HOF player there's ever been, the guy should've spent his career in triple A with his weak bat
 
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Hauler

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Jealous much? Ozzie never won a GG because of offense and like Cincy, Larkin will always be the 2nd best in the NL over that time period.
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He's never won anything because of offense. Including games.

There are pitchers with better lifetime averages than him.
 
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I looked it up - only 1 shortstop in the HOF has a lifetime batting average lower than Ozzie (.262), and that's a guy named Rabbit Maranville (.258) who also played for the Cardinals for 2 seasons - 1927 and 1928.

Although it does look like Ozzie has the lowest SLG for a shortstop in the HOF. (.328)
 
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